New Exploit?

[Martin Hepworth]

Clamav 0.87.1 was released last week to fix various bugs etc..

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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Leonardo Helman
> Sent: 07 November 2005 13:19
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] New Exploit?
> 
> Famous last words...
> 
> Probably your servers will not be so fine
> 
>   http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415723
> 
> Saludos
> 
> --
> Leonardo Helman
> Pert Consultores
> Argentina
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:46:54PM -0500, Wess Bechard wrote:
> >
> >    ClamAV isn't on the list, so at least my servers will be fine.
> >    I'm  going  to  guess that the file utility will not likely miss-
> guess
> >    the header, so it may be a good idea to have the linux file utility
> do
> >    its job.
> >    On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 15:34 -0600, Mike Kercher wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone read this?
> >
> >
> [1]http://www.security.ithub.com/article/Virus%20Scanners%20Made%20Moot%20
> by%20
> > New%20Exploit/164278_1.aspx
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> >    1.
> http://www.security.ithub.com/article/Virus%20Scanners%20Made%20Moot%20by%
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